April 18, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 4/18/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 4/18/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 4/18/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 4/18/25 Edition

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom - a recording glitch explained, did Bing and Bob Crosby ever work together?...

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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom - a recording glitch explained, did Bing and Bob Crosby ever work together? A new listener's record playlist, Lenny from Down the Block, with his Record Pick of the Week - this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on the program.

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It's make believe ballroom time. Put all your cares away.

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All the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.

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It's make believe.

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Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's no time to

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friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude. Your favorite

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bands are on this stance and mister Miller, but you're

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in the mood. It's make believe ballroom time. We are

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a sweet romance as you make believe ballroom.

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Come on, Jim Last, Dass.

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Last, Hello world, I'm Jeff Presler, turning on the lights

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of the make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my

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crystal studio for another program of the great hits of

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the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're listening on

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the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one

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WGMC in Rochester, New York, or on a podcast, or

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perhaps you're listening on internet radio across the United Kingdom,

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doesn't make a difference to me as long as you're here,

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and I'm delighted that you are here and ready to

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bring you an hour of some wonderful big band jazz, swing,

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blues and boogie woogie classics. Folks, you're listening to the

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Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five,

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and last week I I totally ran out of time

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and I had no time to read any of your emails.

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So I will attempt to make up for that throughout

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the broadcast, and our first will be coming up in

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just a few moments after this record. To get things

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underway on today's program.

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Beats out in the rude mental way he learned from

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back qual kids are out of play. Knew ever here

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and the dim stuck to the notion that the only

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way to climb.

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Para little doodle all the time.

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Quiring fire madam, a jewels hair chack very little do it?

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Dan, climb a little do it?

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He can't do tricks with the drummers faber diddle door

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swings them becall us in a fascinating way.

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Send all the.

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Boys and girls to come to hear and play a

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par all the day.

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Come on, folks and say hello, Come up ben Meet

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the drummer.

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We call him.

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Parrotttle Joe, and he's quite a come from coast to coast.

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The hecat safe feeds the best of the whole kaboodle.

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He wants to show you.

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How to play a paradiddle doodle. Okay, Joe, that's really grand.

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You pitched that down the middle. But now the time

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descend the back with the double parva diddle.

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Oh you ain't heard nothing yet. We've got him on

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the griddle.

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He's burning up, and now you'll get a triple parva diddle.

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Hed them, have them.

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Have a diddle Joe.

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On Bluebird Records, we just heard paraddiddle Joe Tony Pastor

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and his Orchestra vocal by Tony, recorded in New York

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City on December the twentieth, nineteen forty. And many of

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you may be saying to yourselves, and what exactly is

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a paradiddle? Well, paradiddle is a drum term, and uh,

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just behind the single stroke and double stroke drum roll.

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Paradiddles believe it or not, or likely the most important

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and commonly used rudiment for a drummer. And you might

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further be asking now who played the paradidals on Tony

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Pastor's record, Well, it was a drummer named John Morris,

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and Tony affectionately called him paradidal Joe. Now let me

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see as I go into one of my record history

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lists if I can find another record at John Morris,

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the drummer appeared on.

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And I have.

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Ever from Bluebird Records. We just listened to Blue Moon

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Rogers and Hart by Vincent Lopez and his Suave Swing Orchestra,

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recorded in New York City on April eighteenth, nineteen thirty nine,

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with the earlier mentioned John Morris playing the drums. And

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while I was playing the record, I looked at my

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notes from this record, and the Bluebird recording had an

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interesting glitch on it that you may have noticed. At

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was approximately the two forty mark of the record, there

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was a brief false ending. The music stopped well, it

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seemed like the record had come to its end, but

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it then picks up again. Like I said, you might

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have noticed it. But the record pause that the two

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forty mark for it was only a couple of seconds. Now,

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this could have been intentional, as in a caesarro, which

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is I guess best described as a grand pause in

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a musical piece. But although the Rogers in Heart Blue

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Moon is indeed an American standard, I don't think a

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grand pause was the purpose. No offense to the great

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mister Rogers, and heart. Now some say maybe the record

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was a little too short at two minutes and forty seconds,

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and the band had to do later on another chorus

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to add time to the record to have it spliced in.

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The record eventually ended up being three minutes and twenty

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seven seconds. Now, I'm not particularly keen to either of

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those two explanations, so it appears that this is one

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recording mystery that will never be solved or answered. And now,

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speaking of answered letters, letters, ah, yes, we get letters

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in the form of emails, many thankfully each week, which

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shows us that all the work that goes into the

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ballroom is not for naught. And our first email today

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is from Ellen Rose, who listens Late into the Night

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on kpo V in Oregon, and she writes, Jeff, late

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night listener at kpo V, my question is did Bing

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Crosby and his brother Bob ever record together? Great question.

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She goes on to say, love your show. Not old

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enough to remember this music the first time around. So

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many of the songs you play I am listening to

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for the first time and that has signed Ellen Rose,

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So thanks for the email.

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Ellen.

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Bob Crosby, of course, was a highly regarded band leader

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and Bing many feel was the greatest crooner of all time.

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I am in that camp now. Bob Crosby had a

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small band within his larger full band, and it was

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called the Bobcats, which had a Dixieland sound to it,

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and Bing and Bob did collaborate a few times over

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the years. I want to play Bing and Bob doing

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Believe it or not, a Dixieland style version of the

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country music legend Ernest Tubbs hit song I'm walking the

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floor over you.

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You left me and you were a word. You said

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that you'd been back in just today. You broken your

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promise and.

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You left me here alone. I don't know why you

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did this, but I do know that you're gone. I'm

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walking the floor over you. I can't sleep a wink,

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that is true.

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I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right

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into I'm walking the floor over you, darling. You know

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I love you, well, love you more than I could

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ever tell. And I thought you wanted me and always

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would be mine, But you went left me with troubles

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on my mind.

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I'm walking the floor over you. I can't sleep a wing.

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That is true.

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I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right

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into I'm walking the.

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Floor over you. Now, someday you may be lonesome too.

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Walking the floors good for you. Just keep right on walking.

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And it won't hurt you to cry. Remember that I

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love you and I'm willing until I die. I'm walking

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the floor over you.

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I can't sleep.

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AWA from DECA Records. Walking the Floor Over You by

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Bing Crosbie and Buy Crosby's podcasts recorded in Los Angeles,

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May the twenty seventh, nineteen forty two. So, Ellen Rose,

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thanks so much for your email and to email me

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your comments or requests like Ellen did I'm Jeff at

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Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at make Believe

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Ballroomradio dot com, and thanks so much for joining me

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today on the one, the only, the original Make Believe

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Ballroom where I am controlling the record Mayhem here from

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the Crystal Studio and once again the snotty kid Dylan

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is in the studio as he awaits his turn to

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go down the hall from the radio side here to

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the podcast recording section to do his weekly gaming podcast.

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So welcome Dylan once again, at twenty three years old,

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getting a great affinity real starting to love the music

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of the big band era. And a little later on

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in the show, Lenny from down the Block will once

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again be joining us from Tampa, Florida with his record

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pick of the week. But now, why don't I play

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a couple from Glenn Miller. I'm gonna play two, but

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let me mix it up here a little. Instead of

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two records, why don't I play one Miller tune from

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his Chesterfield Cigarette radio program and then one from a

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movie that featured Glenn Miller and his orchestra. For the

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Chesterfield tune, I'm gonna select the show from nineteen forty

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featuring The Andrews Sisters.

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Ten PM, Bulova Boulevard Watch Time, WABC, New York. Chesterfield

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brings you the Moonlight Serene, the Cigarette that Satisfies presents

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America's number one dance band with America's number one swing

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three all Glenn Miller and the andrew Sisters Tuesday, Wednesday

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and Thursday, three times every week.

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And now here's Glenn Miller.

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It is another one tonight, decide Harry from the Andrews Sisters.

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You'll hear vocals by Ray married in text, and even

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a word or two from the band. Here's the first one.

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It's the Andrews sister singing, Oh Johnny, Old.

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Johnny, Johnnie, how you can know? Oh Johnny, Johnny, heave

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the boat? Do you make my dad had jumping with joy?

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And when you're near right.

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Joe can't sit still a minute?

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I'm Johnny or Johnny.

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Christmdy what makes me love you?

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So?

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You're not handsome, that's true, But.

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When I look at you, I.

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Just know Johnny or Johnny.

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Da da da dada, half a drip, fastly bound with

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a certain little layer.

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Although he's very, very bad, he could be also good

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if you wanted to banal food, he understood.

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But love another thing for.

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Every girl in town followed him. Or run just the

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whole dear, Then.

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Sing Oh, Joanne, Johnny, how you can know? It's Johnny

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Johnny evers where bum you make myself hot?

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Job with john And when you're near right.

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Jos Cane, it's till another minute. Oh oh Johnny, john.

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Please tell me what made me love you?

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Song You're not handsome ministry, But when I look at you,

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I just don't Johnny Johnny Johnny.

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Mind Janya Dania.

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J Daniel Dania, Johnny Johnny Johnny, O Johnny, john Johnny,

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Please tell me what makes me, what makes me love you?

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So I'm not handsome, minister.

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But I look at you.

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I just Johnny.

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Johnny Johnny.

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You know I'm gonna have to take some time in

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the future to once again tell you the story of

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the disastrous run of the andrew Sisters on the Chesterfield

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Cigarette Show with Glenn was thirteen weeks from hell literally

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when the sisters joined forces with Glenn. Nothing about Glenn

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creating any problems, or any of the band members creating

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any problems, or any of the spot answers or production people,

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but more about the personal dynamics and issues behind the

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scenes involving the Andrews sisters and their parents as a

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family that just wreaked havoc on the Chesterfield Show. I'll

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tell that story again sometime in a future broadcast. But

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let's move on to the Glenn Miller movie Orchestra Wives,

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which hit the screens to much success back in nineteen

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forty two. Now, during the Chesterfield opening, Glenn Miller mentioned

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Tex Bennikee, Marion Hutton, and ray Ebery. Well, they all

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appear in this song I'm about to play one of

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the hits from the movie, and I will also throw

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in the Modern Airs. It's a rousing tune.

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Say, get a load of that home, look at those stars.

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Get it out my friend mama pretty party.

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Say maybe like you and me, you've heard of roses.

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Are reds are blue.

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That's party.

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Maybe it is just the thing for people like you

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Folks they say we're sequation.

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So, we're not suffistic.

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Care I'm gonna stick to.

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The moon, stay with the stop.

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That's my philosophy. People like you, they get a load

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of those guys. It's not in the sky is winging.

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To bactor red.

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I'm five people like you and me.

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He get a load of those guys. I'm doing their jobs,

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keeping the sea land screen.

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Just to like the future ride for people like.

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You and me.

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You might sportran your so everything you'll do, keeping fly,

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keeping rolling.

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We'll have to roll a hustling.

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Us a little dark. We'll see.

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Name people like you and me arousing Glenn Miller Wartime

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song featuring Glenn and the Orchestra with vocals by Marion Hutton, Texas,

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Bennikey Ray every and the Modern Airs from back in

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nineteen forty two all featured in the film Orchestra Wives,

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a film which I encourage you to see. You could

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watch it in its entirety on YouTube. And now, folks,

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we are going to move on to another email, and

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I really love this one. It reads Hi, Jeff, John

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and Elaine writing from Laguna Beach, California. We love your

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show and listen on Apple Podcasts. We go to swing

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dance events whenever we can. It's great. We enjoy going

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to the old historic Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for music

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and dancing. For the last several years we have attended

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Camp Hollywood Labor Day Weekend Swingfest that is held at

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the Lax Marriott in Los Angeles. We love to dance

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Lindy Hop, shag, Balboa, and various swing line dances. We

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also attend classes and local dances. We were inspired from

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a show you did that had a random that had

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excuse me, random selections from the Ralphie from Canarsi Record

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Club list. My wife Elaine and I put together our

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own list of big band swing songs we love to

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dance to. Maybe you can look through the list and

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play a song or two. Thank you for your show.

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There are thousands of swing dancers out there, and many

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I know firsthand. Listen to your make Believe ballroom and

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that signed John and Elaine Stewart, and thanks guys, and

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this is so great you creating your own list. A'lla

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the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list, which was compiled

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over decades by Ralphie Carbone and his fellow club members.

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Your list, unlike the Ralphie from Canarsi list, which has

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over eight hundred songs, is limited to twenty five five

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of your favorite tunes, and I'll be delighted to play

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a few for you and our listeners. Let me start

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with a record that is what you John and Elaine

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enjoy so much.

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Like Lenny Leny, She makes all cats in the ballroom

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stop just looking as sown gry. How that yale keeps

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up that pace? Now I leaning like Lenny was Lendy House.

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She won't even stop him. You call the cops.

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Just look at it twinkling a ride.

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Ah, How that dress quibbles round upside?

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Now I leaning like Lenny was.

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Lendy House, makes all the cats in the ballroom stop,

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look at him, throw out and bring her in. Now

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the way them cats dances are sins.

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Afficient, And then.

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That was Lindy Hopp Lil Hardin Armstrong and her Orchestra,

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recorded on Decca Records in nineteen thirty eight, Lil Armstrong

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being the first wife of Louis Armstrong, one of the

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first female bandleaders to cut a record, and an outstanding pianist.

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Let's pick another from John an Elaine's lst.

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Time after that.

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S we just heard from John and Elaine Stewart's list Vibraphonia,

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Jovenudi and his Blue Five Jovenudi and Eddie Lang on

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Columbia Records, recorded back in nineteen thirty three. Let me

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play one more from the Stewards list.

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What's the birdie for taking a camera?

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Candra shot? What's the birdie? Come on and give it

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all you gotta? What's the birdies?

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Look around the big but bullet? What's the birdie to

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take a bernie bull the while?

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What's the birdie?

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But you can beat that boom? What's the birdies?

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And let me see you a birdie bottom bullet. We're

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looking for a tall, dark, handsome man with eyes of

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blue and the golden tan, wrong white seasons like John

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of my Grave.

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Hang you get out of my way.

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What's the Birdie's sake?

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A camera?

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Candlen, what's the Birdie? Come on, I give it more.

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You've got what's the BIRDI swung around a big a

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bottle bullet.

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Holet.

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Record we just heard from Colombia goes back to nineteen

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forty one. Watch the verdie Gene Krupa and his orchestra

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with the vocal by the talented Anita Oday. And thank

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you so much to Dancing John and Elaine Stewart for

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letting us play a few records from your list of

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twenty five of your favorite big band tunes inspired by

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the famed Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club List. I'll try

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to play a few more of your favorites in the

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weeks to come. And folks, why don't you follow the

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lead of the Stewards by sending me a list of

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your big band favorites so we can play a few

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on the air. I'm Jeff at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com.

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That's Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com. And don't

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forget the Stewards listen to the program on podcast. I

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think in the letter it's at Apple Podcast. Not everyone

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has access to the program. In its original radio form,

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like mss Rose did the first email we read where

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she listens on KPOV. But at make Believe Ballroom Podcast

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dot com. Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com we archive

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all of our past shows for your listening pleasure. And

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on MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com you can also record

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a request. Just go to the microphone in the lower

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right hand corner of the homepage and record away with

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your request. And come to think of it, I will

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play one of those audio comments now for you, and

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I think it's really cool. A few weeks back, I

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played an audio comment from was from Mark Gagan about

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the wonderful vocalist Louly Gene Norman, who Mark informed us

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went on to be the soprano who sang the wordless

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vocal of the original theme song from the Star Trek

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TV show. I went on to play a song from

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Lully Jeen Norman which I suspected they might have used

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in the nineteen forty nine production of The Ice Follies

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and Low and Behold. This week in our audio comments

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and Requests, I received this wonderful story.

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Hello Jeff, this is Michael Molk in Washington State. I

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want to tell you. I appreciated you mentioning the Ice Follies.

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Both my parents skated for the follies. My mother, Mary

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elklip Mauk, was one of the original Ice Foliates in

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nineteen thirty six and my father joined in nineteen thirty

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nine as half of the comedy team of Frickin' Frack.

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My father was Frack. Thanks so much for mentioning the Follies.

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They were the original extravaganza ice show in the United States,

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followed five years later by the Ice Capades. The Ice

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Follies went through several different iterations as they were bought

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by a couple other different companies and lives today as

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Disney on Ice. Thanks again, Jeff, keep up the good work.

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That was so cool.

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Thank you so much, Michael Malk for giving us that

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information on your wonderful parents. Comedic ice skating, I guess

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really was invented by Frick and Frack, and it did

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become part of the Ice Follies for many, many years.

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to the Ice Follies with my parents and my brother,

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there was comedic ice skating. It wasn't Frick and Frack,

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but certainly a part of the show and a trivia

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to your late father, Dylan. Did you ever hear of

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the expression Frick and frack with a blank expression he

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is shaking his head. No, I didn't think so, but

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the late great CBS commentator Charles Osgood did indeed remember.

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M Bernard Grobly and Hans Are Mouk in their two

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men ice skating act didn't perform us Globly and Mouk,

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but called themselves Frick and Frack.

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Grobly was Frick and Mouk was Frack, a.

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Long running ice Folly's sensation who performed on the ice

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in a manner so nice that always they.

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Earned an ovation. On the silver screen, they were in

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silver skates in forty three.

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Hollywood wanted more, so they skated again and Lady Let's

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Dance in the following year forty four.

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Frick is a village in Switzerland.

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Frack is a kind of Swiss coat, and that, with

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the duo's own background, is what freakin Frack meant to denote.

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Other skaters might copy their act in their costumes as

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if they too were Swiss, but.

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None could compare with the Freakin' frack bear. Nobody else

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could do this.

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Frack died long ago at age sixty. The word came

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this week of Frick's death at ninety two. So together

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again it's the Frick and Frack act that could do

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what no other could do. Their names have now entered

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the language and there is no taking it back. From

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now on, special partners, buddies and friends will always be

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called Frick and Frack.

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And thank you once again Michael Malk for your wonderful

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audio email and now friends the make Believe ballroom producer Emeritis,

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the virtue Wosa of the virtual turntable, though one the

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only Lenny from down the Block with his record pick

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of the week.

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High gang, Lenny from down the Block here with my

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record pick of the week. There were two Big Band

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era musicians who never had to worry where their next

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paycheck o'mial was coming from. One was Charlie Barnett, the

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talented and popular saxophonist and bandleader. His grandfather, Charles Frederick Daly,

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was the vice president for the New York Central Railroad.

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In addition, he was a skilled banker and wealthy businessman.

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The other was tenor sax player and bandleader Bob Chester.

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Bob Chester's stepfather was part of the Fisher family. The

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Fishers made their money in the automotive industry with their

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Fisher Bodyworks company. Many of the older listeners to the

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Make Believe Ballroom may have purchased a General Motors car

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with a plaque placed on the door sill that read

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body by Fisher. Bob Chester didn't need his family's money

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to develop into a highly regarded bandleader. During his musical career,

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Bob worked with Tommy Dorsey and David Rose. In nineteen

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thirty nine, Chester formed the New Orchestra, whose sound was

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heavily influenced by Glenn Miller. Bob recorded on the Bluebird

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Records label and had one national hit with the Wind

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and the Rain in your Hair. That's the record I

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picked for you today. It was recorded in nineteen forty

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on Bluebird Records, with a vocal by Dolores O'Neill.

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Enjoy last night we missed, and I read alluliad with

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the wind.

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Down, the red in your head. I hold you chaste

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as you hear spired good night with the women. Than

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the read in your head. No, it will be my

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favorite memory led the usion of you standing.

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In the midst, how you tied when we kissed with

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the wind than the reason in your hea.

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In your head.

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Thanks Lenny, and we look forward to hearing from you

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once again next week. And don't forget in the interim,

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Each Saturday, Lenny posts his Playlist Picks of the Week

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is record Playlist Picks of the Week exclusively on Spotify.

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Whether you have the Spotify app or if you open

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Spotify on your computer, all you have to do is

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put Lenny from Down the Block in the search and

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it will open up a page where Lenny provides us

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with his hand pick selection about an hour of music

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each week Lenny from Down the Block and his record

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Playlist Picks of the Week exclusively on Spotify. And now, oh,

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I almost forgot. I have a great bob Chester story

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to follow up Lenny's pick. With many musical historians from

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the Big band era, they say that Bob Chester made

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a strategic mistake in his career by modeling himself after

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Glenn Miller. Honestly, I agree with that because there was

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only one Glenn Miller and nobody could duplicate that fact.

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And back in the nineteen forties, there was a popular

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joke that went around in musical circles that featured a

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perturbed Glenn Miller being told by a local after arriving

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in a new city where Chester had played before him. Ge,

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mister Miller, your band sounds like Bob Chester. So Chester,

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I guess, due in part to his strategic blunder, eventually

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faded away, but was able to return to Detroit and

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worked the rest of his life in the well you

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probably guessed it. The automotive industry. Bob Chester.

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At the Many, Jack T.

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Garden and his Orchestra United. We Swing on Okay Records,

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recorded in October the sixth, nineteen thirty nine. Folks, we're

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going out with Charlie Barnett, who Lenny just discussed playing

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a Benny Carter arranged Nagasaki once again to reach me,

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I'm Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. To hear

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of the week, Lenny from down the Block in the

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